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Definitions of midwinter in various dictionaries:
noun - the middle of winter
The middle of the winter.
Often used to modify another noun : a midwinter day; midwinter storms.
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| the middle part of winter. |
| the middle of winter |
| The middle of the winter. |
| The period of the winter solstice, about December 22. |
| the middle of the winter: |
| the winter solstice, the particular day of the year on which it is light for the shortest period of time (21 December in northern parts of the world, 21 June in southern parts of the world): |
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The winter solstice (or hibernal solstice), also known as midwinter, is an astronomical phenomenon marking the day with the shortest period of daylight and the longest night of the year. * In the Northern Hemisphere this is the December solstice and in the Southern Hemisphere this is the June solstice. * The axial tilt of Earth and gyroscopic effects of its daily rotation mean that the two opposite points in the sky to which the Earth's axis of rotation points (axial precession) change very slowly (at the current rate it would take just under 26,000 years to make a complete circle). As the Earth follows its orbit around the Sun, the polar hemisphere that faced away from the Sun, experiencing winter, will, in half a year, face towards the Sun and experience summer. This is because the two hemispheres face opposite directions along Earth's axis, and so as one polar hemisphere experiences winter, the other experiences summer. * More evident from high latitudes, a hemisphere's winter solstice oc |